A romantic realist painter of American scenes that show urban and rural lifestyles,Janet Kruskamp has been a resident of Los Gatos, California. She applies a white gesso surface to her paintings that give a luminous quality to the finished work. Her subjects include children, back yards, railroad ties, or crumbling walls.

Coinciding with the American Bicentennial, she traveled more than 30,000 miles by car across the United States to study and sketch most of the states of the Union.(c)